Ladies' Column

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 350, 22 January 1903, Page 2

Ladies' Column

i ff ! . g—* — FJAfSfilOf AND THINGS ,i ? JMININE. fT MISS ADA. MELLEB. (Am, Eiohts Ekbsbvjsd.) A BTBIPED FLANNEL COSTUME BOBTUMES of striped flannel deserve the special attention of those who are seeking to add to their holiday outfits a useful, smart-looking gown for everyday wear, and one that will be serviceable through the late sum: mer. 1A pleasing change from the 0046 and skirt of flannel is a costume after the style of the model sketched, whioh is very much smarter than the ordinary flannel dress, yot nothing could be simplex than the design. The skirt is perfectly plain and, fastens up at the back, though a aideopening could, of course, be substituted. It is stitched at the hem, and is out with the fashionable flow. The blouse bodice is double-breasted, and is trimmed with enamel buttons (pale blue buttons look pretty if the flannel is cream-coloured),

he waist pouching over a bind of goli galon or blue or ton leather. The bodice would look very smart if the front were arranged in a wide, single box-pleat piped with dark linen or with pale bjue. The collar-band is of mlined guipure and the sleeves are gathered into cuffs to match. -The hat suggested would carry out well in gold-coloured Btjraw, or in mixed straw, the crown being gold colour, and the brim of black, soft straw, with a drapery of black glace ribbon or of lace, and a now of lace falling on to the hair at the back. A. delaine material, with a biscuit-tinted ground fhwered in.colours, would also make up prettily in the style illustrated, and be rather more dresayJooking than flannel. ', A SOME MODISH Cream and white are more popular for blouses than brighter colours this summer, and some of the most successful toilettes have been in white material with a colour-touch coming from a string 6! pink corals or blue stones, A striped black and white dress relieved in the same way is usually a success. Sometimes the colour-touch to a dream or white teiletti comes from the hat. Very effective and out of the eomthon is a toilette of soft cream-coloured Jap silk, or nun'? veiling, worn with a shady hat of emerald-green straw wreathed with tea roses. A. hat of black tulle covered with forget-me-nots ia a charming contrast to a blouse or entire costume of white washing silk, and, again, colour-relief to a snowy dress comes prettily from a hat of bine, wired tulle anl strands of straw, v black velvet ribbons and black roses or poppies trimming the brim. Oae hesitates before suggesting the wearing of, ia light green tulle toque, lest tho suggestion should be abused by the unwise and the toque coupled with the wrong choice of green. Nevertheless nothing could have been more successful than the appearance of a bright-haired woman who was recently wearing a toque composed entirely of emerald green tulle, her droll being white and black. Green ia decidedly the fair-haired woman's colour. The pruaette needs to ba very careful is the Jtt»do of green ■ she v affects,, especially it'she he lv arf'-flffies of green m*y becQme.her well, bat, M 1 rale, she should avoid bright greens. SEASIDE FROCK FOR A GIRL, Tho 'sk tch which „I am showing fef a seaside frock for a girl suggests notKMily a design for a new costume, but ateo a way in which a frock that has. already been worn may be renovated—nanvalfilij' i the addition of bands of embroidery) Iff torchon laoe. The sailor blouse .W mounted into an elastic at the waist, ana with a gcod droop over no waistband.is required. Theskirt, however, should,to mounted into a band of its own materiau

Dark or powder-blue Hneij. jb the material I would suggest fpr the frock;} but, alternative choice lies in brasq£-'picnie,. or holland, for waehing materials,: while th» model is, of course, well serge. The laoe-insertion U6ed shoalOn be of a washiag kind, and the vfbe might be <i a white pique or flannel Th*/soro trimming on the shady hafc of white straw is a biff, lo*aely-niade »tjj>w and scarf of washing silk.